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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No skin in this game (not FFX) but I don't like required or mandatory community service or service learning.  Also don't like when parents give kids an allowance but then require them to donate part of it.  I think they send all the wrong messages about why we should do service, help communities, and donate.  THis just makes them show up somewhere and maybe do something.  No consistency.  The idea of kids getting "credit" for helping the janitor or the office staff is downright offensive (to the janitor and the office staff).

I think a great class assignment would be to have groups of kids plan and implement some event or the like that benefits the community -- all the way from finding out what the community needs, figuring out a budget, and implementing a plan.  Could be repeated in different years and expanded when the kids get older and need more challenge.  Much more meaningful than just being told where to go and what to do.[/quote]

Some kids do their volunteering through groups.  I know that my kids participated in canned food drives and clean ups through their outside activities that they were involved in.

After they do some group volunteering then they can start to look for ways to volunteer on an individual basis for a cause that means something to them.  After that, maybe they'll organize a volunteer activity themselves.

There are lots of ways to volunteer.  Both in and outside of school.  [/quote]

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